Teotonio R. de Souza <[email protected]> wrote: 1: As a young and promising scholar I wish he (Jason) sheds some of his brattish handling of senior scholars .....
2: I may also suggest to Jason to refer to my other text on Goan identity .....if Jason does not want to fall prey to misreading the intentions and the unconscious of those who do not share his vistion of reality. 3: My concluding message to the Global Goan Convention may be viewed as my latest addition to my past reflections upon the uniqueness of Goan Identity: A partnership of Hindu majority and Catholic minority. 4: It has now to face the post-liberation challenges with the same spirit. COMMENT: a: I applaud Jason for his scholarly post. The fact that he is a PG student, shows in his writings. One does not necessarily have to agree with his views but I, personally, would not try to box his young and vibrant mind. b: Dr. Teotonio de Souza is a well known historian. He is IMHO living in a personally convenient section of the distant past. And that is fine with me. What I find disconcerting is his attempt (supra) to try mould Jason's thought process "in his (TRS') image". c: I believe that 'senior scholars' in all fields of endeavour should be prepared for significant 'brattish handling' by the new generation of scholars. It is not any 'vision', it is a fact of life. d: re #s 3 and 4 above Dr. de Souza's living in the the distant past shows up yet again. The term Goan Identity is soon to be relegated to the museum sections known as "Fiction", "Extinct" or "Existing only at Global Goan Conventions". The "post-liberation" from the Portuguese events on the ground have ensured that the partnership between Hindu and Catholic Goans which existed during the erstwhile Portuguese regime has now been taken over by the "Gold Rush". e: Goa has been relegated to the place Bollywood had determined for it several decades ago i.e. A place on the beach with Cheap liquor, even cheaper women and lazy men who can be convinced for a few rupees to run each other down, and be kept busy arguing about the Portuguese and the Catholic church etc while the land beneath is being either swiped or denuded of its wealth and the air and water polluted. jc
